> Knowing the entire platform is how you become a productive Elixir programmer, though it seems some devs refuse to look behind the curtains to understand the Erlang side of it, thus never truly understand the power of the BEAM platform.

This should be a lesson learned by all that boost about Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, F#, C and C++ replacements, JavaScript replacement, without bothering to learn the underlying infrastructure they are build upon.

Many times the X is going to replace Y advocacy, is a bit hard to achieve when the platform was designed for Y and will never go away from Y, for its whole lifetime.